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New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.

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"Your Late Lamented Husband": A Letter from Frederick Douglass to Mary Todd Lincoln

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David W. Blight

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Imperial Rivalries

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Peter C. Mancall

World History

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Inventing American Diplomacy

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R. B. Bernstein

Government and Civics, World History

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The Puritans and Dissent: The Cases of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

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Francis J. Bremer

Religion and Philosophy

Native American Discoveries of Europe

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Daniel K. Richter

Economics, Geography, World History

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Teaching American History to Muslim Exchange Students

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Ted Widmer

Government and Civics

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Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City

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Vincent J. Cannato

Economics

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Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change

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Linda R. Monk

Government and Civics

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The Roaring Twenties

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Joshua Zeitz

The Impact of Title IX

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Barbara Winslow

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